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PA Legislature asked to fund 3 more prisons

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

PA Legislature asked to fund 3 more prisons Friday, February 29, 2008 By Tom Barnes, Post-Gazette Harrisburg Bureau HARRISBURG -- Jeffrey A. Beard is a state official who runs a steadily growing empire, one that will oversee hundreds more people this year than last and will cost $1.7 billion, or almost $67 million more than last year. But unlike many governmental officials whose budgets and responsibilities are expanding, he's not happy about it. Mr. Beard is the secretary of corrections, responsible for running the state's 27 prisons, which now hold 46,000 inmates, or 4,400 over capacity, with more checking in weekly. As a result, he asked the state Senate Appropriations Committee yesterday to authorize construction of two or three additional prisons immediately at a cost of about $200 million each...continue to full post

Full post as published by The Real Cost of Prisons Weblog on February 29, 2008 (boomark / email).